Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Memories

When I was a kid living at the Mission I used to really dislike it that we always had home-made ice cream instead of store bought ice cream. We have these huge Mission-wide picnics and every family had their own ice cream maker. We'd go down to the picnic area and eat lunch while the ice cream was being made. The din from the ice cream makers was unbelievable. I remember poking sticks into red ant piles and playing tag to the tune of no less than four ice cream makers cranking away.

Anyway, I was watching a cooking show the other day and whomever it was doing the cooking was also making ice cream. I told Del that although I didn't really like it as a kid, I had fond memories of making ice cream now as an adult.

Del and I have an anniversary coming up. Our 9th, on Friday the 5th. So he got me an early anniversary gift so that I could share it with my parents before they head to Maui on Saturday. Check it out.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Yum! It's so pretty with all that shiny stainless-steel! You'll have so much fun with it!

Elspeth said...

Neat! Enjoy it.

Johanna said...

Early gifts??? That's almost sacreligious at our house! I love my ice cream maker - I hope you get lots of good use out of yours!

Anonymous said...

YUMMY! That's a pretty one!

What great memories! I also have great memories about making ice cream at my mamaw and papaw's house. It was a fave of my papaw's! He died when I was 11 so, Good Memories there :) And thank you for bringing them back! :)

Anonymous said...

BTW, I just clicked on your link. And WOW! What a very cool place to live, growing up! I bet you have some stories to tell dontcha? ;)

The Father knows best. said...

Wow, your husband seems really really really really cool. I bet he is a great guy...with rugged good looks.

Nice catch; treat him right.